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He recently upped that estimate from 50 percent as he saw cloud capabilities evolve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Kent said that cloud providers probably won\u2019t put much effort into migrating government applications that are too specific to a single purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf there\u2019s only one in the world, why would a cloud provider want to provide it that way? Now, if there\u2019s commonality, we\u2019ll try to make that one in the world not the one in the world anymore,\u201d said Kent, adding that future applications the government wants to buy will, by and large, have to be cloud based.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou\u2019re not going to find many application developers not creating to the cloud, so all your applications that you can buy as a consumer will be delivered in the cloud whether you like it or not.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The consideration of which application traits are most cloud appropriate is also in line with the Trump administration\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federaltimes.com\/it-networks\/cloud\/2018\/09\/24\/white-house-seeks-a-smarter-cloud-strategy\/\" target=_blank>new Cloud Smart initiative<\/a>, an update on the Obama-era Cloud First program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCloud First is probably not reality, it\u2019s probably more of a hybrid world that comes out,\u201d said Larry Payne, senior vice president for Cisco Public Sector. \u201cI think what Cloud Smart is basically saying is choose the right solution.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Traditionally, agencies have prioritized what is appropriate for cloud migration based on its criticality, placing the security of the data at the top of cloud concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But experts at the event said that security isn\u2019t necessarily dictated by what is on premises versus offsite in a commercial cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think control is an illusion. In government \u2014 I came from the government \u2014 we believed that if everything was inside those four walls we had control. But the walls don\u2019t define control. Architecture defines control; security is no different if it\u2019s outside your walls or if it\u2019s inside your walls,\u201d said Bowman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think we\u2019ve got to separate hybrid IT from hybrid security, because security is a whole different ball of wax we can talk about moving into a hybrid environment, and I don\u2019t think you can combine the two, because you have to look at the strategy very differently.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Agencies may also inadvertently have a hybrid-like situation without intentionally moving data to the cloud, because of the way employees or citizens access that data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m sort of less interested in where something is versus what something is. 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We talk a lot about a protective layer on the data, but we end up with lots of copies of it,\u201d said Jay Huie, secure cloud portfolio director at the General Services Administration\u2019s Technology Transformation Service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere are interesting demarcations of when things cross over in that hybrid world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Claudio Belloli, FedRAMP program manager for cybersecurity at GSA, the introduction of more comprehensive security validations, such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federaltimes.com\/2016\/06\/24\/commentary-fedramp-high-a-turning-point-in-federal-cloud-adoption\/\" target=\"_blank\">Federal Risk Authorization Management Program\u2019s High certification<\/a>, can address many agencies\u2019 security fears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt opens up the ability to move more to the cloud,\u201d said Belloli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bowman added that security is often better in the cloud. 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